United States v. Van Allen

CASHIN, District Judge.

The indictment in this case was filed on March 24, 1960. It contains 160 counts, all of which relate to the offer and sale of stock in Gulf Coast Leaseholds, Inc. The gravamen of the indictment is that the mails and interstate wire communications were used to sell these unregistered securities and that such sales were effected by fraud. The indictment names twenty defendants and twenty-eight co-conspirators.

Numerous pre-trial motions have been made by a number of the defendants. For convenience, the motions will be discussed in groups composed of those which present the…